Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 23 shown for “No. 52” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reliquary Shrine
Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50
Agropyron fragile (Roth) Candargy
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1948 to 9 Jul 1948

East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel
Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1910; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Valeriana sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Pair of candlestands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Lonicera quinquelocularis Hardw.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Sorbus cashmiriana Hedl.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Melica jacquemontii Decne.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1933

Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Amenemhab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Campanula sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

The Temptation
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedwig) Dix.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Horse bit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedwig) Dix.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amun Mentuemhat
Artist not stated in the record · 690–645 BCE

Elsholtzia splendens Nakai ex F. Maek.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian
Artist not stated in the record · 521

Syringa emodi Wall. ex Royle
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Verbascum thapsus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933

Bronze shield boss
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Scrophularia koelzii Pennell
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1933 to 4 Jul 1933
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 6405 matched · 24 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 225057 matched · 40 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:54 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.